George Washington Selected Writings Introduced by Ron Chernow ISBN: 978-1-59853-110-7 512 pp. / $16.95 Printed on high-quality acid-free paper SAVE 20% and get FREE Shipping anywhere in the U.S. when you order from the LOA Web Store! Web Store Price: $13.56

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A young officer leading an attack that triggered a global struggle for empire. Commander of the ill-equipped and undermanned Continental Army in the War of Independence. Presiding delegate to the Constitutional Convention. First President of the United States. George Washington, the indispensable founder of the American republic, was at the heart of events of worldwide importance—and he was also a writer of remarkable clarity, energy, force, and eloquence. His Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Ron Chernow, remarks, “To encounter Washington in his writings is to confront a notably hot-blooded and opinionated man, not the reticent sphinx of American myth.”

Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan. Two subsequent books, Alexander Hamilton and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, were both nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. His most recent biography, Washington: A Life, received 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the American History Book Prize.

Partial Contents
Journey to the French Commandant, January 16–17, 1754
Farewell Address to the Virginia Regiment, January 10, 1759
Reward for Runaway Slaves, August 11, 1761
Address to the Continental Congress, June 16, 1775
To the Inhabitants of Canada, c. September 14, 1775
To the Executive Committee of the Continental Congress, January 1, 1777
Proclamation Concerning Loyalists, January 25, 1777
Speech to the Delaware Chiefs, May 12, 1779
Instructions to Spies Going into New York, c. September 1780
Circular to New England State Governments, January 5, 1781
From Journal of the Yorktown Campaign, August 14–October 19, 1781
Speech to the Officers of the Army, March 15, 1783
Circular to State Governments, June 8, 1783
Farewell Address to the Armies of the United States, November 2, 1783
Address to Congress on Resigning Commission, December 23, 1783
First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
First Annual Message to Congress, January 8, 1790
To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, August 18, 1790
Second Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1790
To the Chiefs of the Seneca Nation, December 29, 1790
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1793
Fifth Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1793
Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
From Last Will and Testament, July 9, 1799

Plus: Nearly 150 memos, orders, letters, and diary entries